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The Big Question: Can Streaming Go Mainstream?

Once heralded as an industry saviour, a stigma is beginning to form around streaming services, spurred on by the abstention of high profile acts like Coldplay and Bob Dylan as well as the radio silence from labels on the detail of licensing deals.

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Date: 23 February 2012
Location: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street,, UK

Enabling: Digital Development in the Arts

Get a grip on digital technology http://enablingdigitaldevelopment.eventbrite.co.uk/

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Date: 21 February 2012
Location: Bolton College, UK

Mobile Games - Current Trends and what are the lessons for other sectors?

Mobile games is arguably the most significant contributor to mobile content revenues - so there's plenty to learn from that sector if you're not in it - and plenty to think about from others' experience if you are.

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Date: 30 January 2012
Location: CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, UK

PHP UK Conference 2012

PHP UK Conference 2012 is PHP London's seventh annual conference, building on the success of previous events by expanding to a double-day event, to accommodate the continual growth of the PHP community and PHP development industry.

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Date: 23 February 2012
Location: Business Design Centre, UK

X | MediaLab | Bath

X Media Lab Bath gathers digital media and entertainment visionaries from around the world to share their insight into the rapidly evolving media, entertainment and technology industries. It is your chance to learn how to succeed in today's environment and to thrive in tomorrow's.

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Date: 16 March 2012
Location: Bath, UK

Simon Says: You're Wrong about Spotify

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"Spotify Paid Lady Gaga $167 For 1,000,000 Plays"

This headline showed the “dark side” of music streaming start up, Spotify. Critics were in awe about how little artists were being paid for their hard work. Despite the short lived pleas from Spotify that they paid more per play people focused on this number, as if it was a bad thing.

Paying an artist less than 1p per play sounds like a raw deal, until you remember Spotify is a marketing platform. Spotify is designed as a service for people to listen to their favourite tracks cheaply. Why does this benefit the artist? Because if you love their music, you’ll go to the show, get the t-shirt and support the live scene.

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techpitch 4.5

techpitch 4.5 is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, including some of the startups that have taken part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.

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Date: 8 February 2012
Location: Pinsent Mason's Auditorium, UK

Facebook Developer Garage London January 2012

Our first regular event of 2012. We've some great speakers lined up - so far there's Bernie Hogan, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute who'll be talking about network and networking visualisations, and a usual must-see for developers, Iskandar Najmuddin from Syncapse will get us up to date with the latest Facebook platform updates.

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Date: 18 January 2012
Location: Freemasons' Hall, UK

Augmented Reality Summit

We have recently witnessed a number of key sectors embracing AR; from the gaming sector, top TV shows and leading brands, all of which shows signs that the future of AR is set to explode to new heights in advertising, gaming and in our everyday life’s… watch this space…augmented reality is coming your way in 2012!

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Date: 7 January 2012
Location: Delfina, UK

The Winter Hackathon

The Winter Hackathon is a two-day festival of software coding devoted to the creation of mobile apps for the million plus visitors to the summer games in London in July/August 2012.

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Date: 28 January 2012
Location: Central Working, UK

FutureEverything Conference 2012

Manchester's FutureEverything Festival announces 2012 conference line up

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Date: 17 May 2012
Location: Museum of Science and Industry, UK

Eric Ries, The Lean Startup – London Edition. 16th January 2012

Eric Ries, author of, ‘The Lean Startup’, will talk about what it means to apply those ideas in practice. After the talk and Q&A, there will be networking drinks & everyone will leave with a signed copy of The Lean Startup.

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Date: 16 January 2012
Location: tba, UK

Simon Says: Download These Apps - 5 Favourites You Should Try Before 2012

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As 2012 approaches I thought I would write a nice post.

I hate the clichéd "prediction" articles you tend to get at this time of the year as peoples predictions tend to be either biased hopes (which never happen) such as me wishing for a hoverboard just because Back To The Future said they would happen. Or really really easy extrapolations of what's happening right now. The industry moves fast and predictions change hourly, so that's not what this post is about.

Here are my 5 favorite iPhone apps of 2011. And why I think you should get them for 2012. I've specifically avoided the usual suspects (Twitter, Facebook, FML etc). In no particular order...

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a4uexpo Europe 2012

a4uexpo Europe is a performance marketing conference and exhibition offering high-end networking with an international audience, educational conference sessions, a buzzing exhibition hall and many additional features such as the Street for new publishers and advertisers and Performance Marketing Health Clinics.

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Date: 19 June 2012
Location: Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I, ES

Simon Says: The Future for Small Businesses is (potentially) Bright

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Square is a company that caught my eye just over a year ago. If you’re not familiar with it, you should be. It’s an iPhone / iPad app that lets you receive credit card payments. The start-up (if you can call a company which transfers more than $3 million per day a "start-up") has recently received investment from Richard Branson and is "looking into international expansion in 2012", this excites me greatly, here’s why...

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